#microphone fiends

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5/2: "Microphone Fiends" (Monthly Emcee Showcase) - Mr. Composition, Warna, D-Sin, Spy MC, Same Diff, Yooserp, Will Apollo, Roc Box and DJ Notion @ On the Half Shell

HIP HOP/RAP/DJ, $5 COVER AT THE DOOR, 21+

DOORS AT 9 P.M., MUSIC AT 10:15 P.M.

FACEBOOK EVENT

10:15 P.M. - Warna: Facebook, ReverbNation, Twitter

10:30 P.M. - Yooserp: Facebook, Bandcamp

10:45 P.M. - Roc Box (Lynwood, CA/San Marcos, TX): Facebook, SoundCloud, YouTube

11 P.M. - D-Sin: Facebook, ReverbNation, Twitter

11:15 P.M. - Will Apollo: Facebook, ReverbNation, Twitter

11:30 P.M. - Mr. Composition: Facebook, Bandcamp, Twitter

11:45 P.M. - Spy MC: Facebook, ReverbNation, Twitter

12 A.M. - Same Diffrnc: Facebook, Bandcamp, on YouTube

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Sleep-Rhyming and Hallelujah!

(this is where we post reflections, right?)

Mackenzie Taylor

Class 5

I really enjoyed hearing verbatim from MCs about how they write. I am always interested in other musicians'/artists' creative process. Not so I can copy them or because I think there is a “correct” way to write or even that there are certain “better” ways to write, but because I think the exchange of ideas on the writing process helps one to come to more informed conclusions on how they personally write their best. Everyone goes about writing very differently and a good result isn't necessarily correlated with a certain kind of writing process. I saw a lot of my own writing process in some of the MCs that were interviewed and even got ideas for what methods could work for me/how I could improve the methods I already have. For instance, Crooked I (on page 147) talks about how sometimes he writes rhymes in his sleep, so he has a tape recorder ready by his bed to record them in the middle of the night. Something Cormega said really hit home – the frustrating and disappointing experience of thinking of a rhyme, going to sleep and telling yourself you'll write it down in the morning... only to have completely forgotten it by the time you wake up. I often write rhymes in my sleep or as I'm starting to fall asleep, so I'm usually too lazy or hazy too wake up enough to write them down. I think that if I had a tape recorder readily accessible, it would make it so much more convenient for me to “write” down the rhymes I come up with in this setting. Also, sometimes I come up with rhymes when I'm actually dead asleep – I'll write an entire song, verse and chorus and whatnot, and sometimes even write the full instrumentation, and it will sound so dope, and these dreams are usually very very vivid when I am having them. But I won't realize I'm asleep, so I'll furiously write it down in the dream... and when I wake up it'll take me a minute to realize that the pen and paper I had in the dream weren't the pen and paper I have in real life. So with that, I really wonder if it's possible to ever remember the songs I write in my dreams. Maybe if I learn how to lucid dream I could. I don't know.

When I was reading the text “Sermons Classified According to Structural Type,” I read it while replacing each instance of the word 'sermon' with the word 'rap' so I could more easily relate it how I could apply this knowledge to my own writing of rhymes. “The strength of a sermon is so often in its structure:” I think this is an important point, and also relates to something said back in the text about writing. An MC in the content text said that often MCs are good at one thing – either flow or content – and it's a really good MC who can master both. I'm definitely on the content end of the spectrum – I have more of a skill with writing and the actual words, but when it comes to spitting them, I keep finding that my flow is repetitive or sounds stilted (and I'm really trying to work on that). So even though I have the words of my “sermon,” it's structure is lacking. And it's the structure that ties the whole thing together.

I like thinking about rapping and spoken word in the context of sermons. It makes me think of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He was an incredible speaker and I would almost constitute his speeches as spoken word for the artistic way his words flowed. His pauses, emphasis on certain words, changes in volume, etc. really grab the listeners attention and gives them goosebumps. Thinking of sermons brings to mind my experiences sitting in church as a child (only black churches really, because I never got the same kind of experience out of white churches) and the call and response and the “amen!”s and the dramatic pauses in the sermons. Everyone was caught on every word of the sermon because it was just that beautifully articulated. Much of what I saw sitting in these churches really bares a lot of resemblance to some aspects of hip-hop and spoken word. P.S., check out this dope music event coming up this saturday night and the promo vid (if you want to see me reading a book in a library while a friend dances next to me, twerking on the wash sq arch, etc) : (I am the master of ceremonies and founder, and fellow classmate Zach is performing under Kitty Mane) ch-ch-ch-check check it outtttt- http://youtu.be/htnlsEKrs_g https://www.facebook.com/events/451469091551587/

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Occapella #14

pocket full of hope when I'm on the scene no smoke sip something only get a little bent like a lima bean look don't touch like I'm a crime scene I'm mean in a nice way better solo like beyonce I always strive for hope aint never vexed like Leslie Knope the hood the smallest part of me like a coat Popeye flow get that spinach and away I go  my top magic like gandalf's hat gave love 100 don't want no change back keep reachin for the sky like I wanna give a plane dap youth keg tapped society take that no one looks inside that's where the monsters at aint no one an angel we far from that our pieces everywhere like a car that crashed all I do is spread my wings and flap aint gonna stop til virginia is on the map aint gonna stop til death takes me back

problems mental life coincidental a rental and I'm saying fuck the security deposit and looking for whatever caused it you got it right Henry David Thoreau beware of all enterprises that require new clothes some get this but most people don't even know it aint where you been or where you goin its how you act when you're on you own 

 ~C.B.M

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Occapella #13

aww shit  I spit splendiforus aww fuck duck like darkwing aww shucks I'm warping leaps quantum thrown gauntlet rhymes stamp it heart rampant crazy mind racing Usain Bolt Wayne Gacy yall Stuart Scott eyes lazy hate made me love weighs me like an anchor always colorful life's a painter and I'm hard in it paint that is never say crib cause in has bars in it like me it says mars on my ID robot flow my sweet chariot hangs low moving forward steps hurt like turf toe star trek captain Kirk flow don't be mad your wins low Carl Harriet who? I'm Majin Boo  whenever I take a step in the booth microphone check 1 check 1 2 take flight dress nice like every night date night my mind always gotta work kinda like a brake light 

Yeah its CBM still black like a Genesis Sega friends with women whos enemys all man like their first name mega ice fire wind man too why hate always gotta boomerang like quick man do

~C.B.M 

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Quick freestyle 

"Sailor Moon"

I grab a pen  and Honey I'm home my mind a window to the world like it's google chrome yall remind me of those goons off home alone I rock and roll nigga like a rolling stone  fuck mad max my fitted the thunder dome master blaster I spit disasters its coming right at ya to wreck your stature so you better check your self I'm a champion check the belt and I aint never need no help just to be myself who dat is looking for a fuck to give I give less fucks than custard did

life shorter than skirts on sailor moon so your first love better be whatever the fuck you doin

I'm a star nigga converse old school cool like a pack of certs I'm in like a cat hat people hate themselves we can't have that

~C.B.M